**Dear Polkadot Technical Fellowship Committee**,

My name is Cedric Decsoter (GitHub: darkfriend77), and I would like to request membership in the Polkadot Technical Fellowship.

* Polkadot Account: `14MVAs6jPc7bPW33fC7eTwz4Zf1pD3KWW4tQtrHWUd9w1Phx`

I have been actively contributing to the Substrate ecosystem since 2020, working on open-source repositories and projects such as Ajuna Network, SubstrateGaming, and PolkadotPlay. As Founder and Core Contributor of Ajuna Network, and as Core Developer behind the entire Substrate C# Stack, including the Polkadot SDK for Unity.

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**Key Contributions**
Github handle: https://github.com/darkfriend77

**Substrate C# Stack**
* https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.NET.API
* https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.NET.Toolchain
* https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.NET.Wallet
* https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/Substrate.Chains.NET
* (Archived) https://github.com/ajuna-network/SubstrateNetApi

**Polkadot SDK for Unity**
* https://github.com/PolkadotPlay/Polkadot.Unity.SDK

**Web3 Grants**
* https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/pull/265
* https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/pull/433
* (with PolyCrypt) https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/pull/893

**Ajuna Network** (https://github.com/ajuna-network):
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/pallet-ajuna-connectfour
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/pallet-ajuna-matchmaker
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/pallet-ajuna-gameregistry
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/pallet-ajuna-rps
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/pallet-dotmog
* https://github.com/ajuna-network/ajuna-pallets

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**Highlights and Achievements in 2024**

* **Polkadot SDK for Unity Technical Verification**: Successfully developed, published and passed the technical verification for the Polkadot SDK for Unity in early 2024. [LINK](https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1768337864352284813)

* **Async Backing Adoption**: Led Ajuna Network to adopt asynchronous backing with runtime upgrades on Kusama and Polkadot, becoming the first non-common-good parachains to do so through runtime upgrades. [LINK](https://x.com/AjunaNetwork/status/1802698678173405601)

* **BBB Android App**: Developed and published the first production mobile Unity app/game in the Google Play Store, a full-onchain game running on top of a non-EVM Polkadot Parachain (ajuna network). [LINK](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.ajuna.bbb&hl=de_CH)

* **S.A.G.E. Framework**: Currently leading development on an asset state transition engine for game backends. This framework abstracts Substrate/Rust code into basic transition functions and verification rules with free-to-play modules, anti-account farming measures, tournaments, rewards, and much more. [LINK](https://github.com/ajuna-network/ajuna-pallets/tree/develop/sage)

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**Engagement**

I have represented substrate-based projects and tools at various conferences, personally and as lead of the Ajuna team:

* Substrate Seminar | Build .NET and Unity parachain apps [LINK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdvCbK0kQI) 
* Sub0 2022 | Substrate .NET Toolchain & Unity [LINK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ou8VHItvgU) 
* DOTMog Presentation [LINK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPE16aMZZpc) 

I was also a core contributor of Team Hexalem, which won at the Polkadot Winter Hackathon 2023
* [Contributors](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/hackathon-2023-winter/graphs/contributors)
* [Hexalem Project](https://github.com/SubstrateGaming/hackathon-2023-winter/tree/main/projects/36-Hexalem) 

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**Motivation**

I have been actively pushing the gaming vertical in Polkadot since joining and successfully completing the Substrate Builders Program with Ajuna—back when gaming wasn’t a major focus in the ecosystem. Since then, I’ve stayed deeply involved as both a developer and the lead of the Ajuna team. Joining the Fellowship would be a meaningful acknowledgment of my ongoing commitment to Polkadot, both for what I’ve done so far and what I plan to do in the future.

Additionally, there is a short bio presented by Nicholas at Polkadot Decoded 2022:
[Video link (timestamped)](https://youtu.be/3EVoZ8aVFB0?t=172)

#38 Fellowship application Cedric aka darkfriend77